{"product_id":"insatiability-paperback-softback-9780810111349","title":"Insatiability (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810111349","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eInsatiability\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStanislaw  Ignacy Witkiewicz (Author), Louis Iribarne (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810111349\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 September 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e534 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16.5 x 3.3 cm, 0.748 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Magnificent.\" --Susan Sontag\u003c\/div\u003e|\u003cdiv\u003e\"There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered.\" --Witold Gombrowicz\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis novel, the author's masterpiece, is one of the greatest expressions ever of the tortured intersection of political and personal destinies in Eastern Europe. Futuristic, experimental, and remarkably prophetic, \u003ci\u003eInsatiability\u003c\/i\u003e traces the adventures of a young Pole whose fate parallels the collapse of Western civilization following a Chinese communist invasion from the east. Written in 1927, Witkiewicz's anti-Utopian novel proved to be a horribly prescient vision of what would become reality for Eastern Europe in the late 1930s.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePart One: The Awakening\u003cbr\u003eThe Awakening\u003cbr\u003eSoirée at the Princess di Ticonderoga's \u003cbr\u003eA Visit with Tenzer\u003cbr\u003eA Visit to Prince Basil's Retreat\u003cbr\u003eSexphyxiation\u003cbr\u003eThe Return, or Life and Death\u003cbr\u003eDemonism\u003cbr\u003eDomestic Affairs and Destiny\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Insanity\u003cbr\u003eSchool\u003cbr\u003eA Meeting and Its Consequences\u003cbr\u003eA Repeat Performance\u003cbr\u003eA Commander's Thoughts and the Little Theater of Quintofron Crepuscolo\u003cbr\u003eTorchures and the Debut of the \"Gent from Below\"\u003cbr\u003eA Battle and Its Consequences\u003cbr\u003eThe Final Metamorphosis\u003cbr\u003eThe Wedding Night\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Convulsion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670807146776,"sku":"9780810111349","price":25.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/insatiability-paperback-softback-9780810111349","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}